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COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER SAYS

Fight for new policies

By NIGEL MORGAN

heeded as House opens

If Premier Bennett expects, as he recently. predicted, a. quiet Legislative Ses-
Sion, he is in for a rude awakening! For no matter how much the Socred administra-

tion may wish to sidestep them—unemploy ment, the:government’s power and resources |;

policies, ‘rising municipal tax burdens, the scandalous situation in welfare administra-
tion and the threat of more anti-labor isipietion, are all bound. to-stir up quite a storm.

With these issues up, the
government majority cut to 12,
and the militancy of municipal
ratepayers, labor and the un-
employed rising, this Session
Should be a real jim-dandy; A
Mass lobby being organized by
the unemployed with  assist-
ance of the B.C. Federation of
Labor and affiliated unions to
Compel action. on the jobs
Crisis, can be expected to. jolt
the Socreds out of their com-
placency.

JOBS

With more than one out of
every ten of B.C.’s working
force of 583,000 reported un-
employed — the highest ratio
in. any Canadian province
Since the “Hungry Thirties,”
according to government re-
Ports, the jobs problem un-
doubtedly will head the list of
Major issues.

Action to relieve -the grow-
ing crisis — additional provin-
Cial provisions for works pro-
jects; action to find new mar-
kets for B.C. products; pres-
Sure on Ottawa for new na-
tional policies of peace, trade

and the diversion of senseless.

arms’ spending to peoples’
needs and defence of our jobs
and homes, will muster wide
Support,

COLUMBIA RIVER

Closely linked to this issue
is the heed to halt the govern-

GREG

Are new chains being pre-
pared for labor by Social
Credit?

ment’s resource giveaways,
particularly Columbia _ water-
power. B.C.’s 26th Legislature
will never be forgiven -if it
fails to speak up, declare its
opposition to ratification of
the terms. of. the proposed
treaty, and call instead for a
joint Federal-Provincial. pro-

‘ject to develop the Columbia

on the. basis of maximum

Photo shows captured counter-revolutionaries who were

recently smuggled into Cuba

to prepare for armed inter-

Vention which is being financed and equipped by the U.S.

“Ruby McKay,
cutbacks in. medical services
‘to unemployed, the inadequacy

power gon cratten on the Cat

adian. side to provide~ for an|-

all-Canadian East-West grid to
stimulate _Canadian -industrial
and: manufacturing expansion,
provide thousands..of new job
opportunities, and serve Can-
ada’s needs first.

Instead of furthering the sur-
render of our. national. inde-
pendence. and. vital interest,
and. collaborating in U.S. ex-
pansionist. plans,. the ~ Legisla-
ture should take decisive steps
to regain. control of our :re-
sources. and nationalize U.S.
holdings.that deny B.C. work-
ers jobs in developing and pro-
cessing them. Widespread sup-
port. is growing to bring all
B.C.. power, natural gas and

telephone utilities, and all
timber, oil and mineral. re-
serves’ back under public
Ownership and control.
TAXATION

The urgent need of B.C.
municipalities for increased

financial- grants to reduce the
burden of local taxes, while
meeting the essential need for
more schools, hospitals, water,
sanitation,.. traffic improve-
ments; and parks is reaching
crisis~ proportions: B.C. muni-
cipalities and -school boards
are inthe middle of a double
squeeze, Undoubtedly this issue
will be pressed. home at the
coming Session.
SOCIAL WELFARE
Maladministration in the
Department of Welfare expos-
ed by the resignation of Miss
newly-ordered

of welfare allowances. and
charges of corruption and pol-
itical patronage . surrounding
Highways Minister. Gaglardi,
ean be expected to all but
bring. the roof down on the
Bennett government at. this
first session of the new Legis-
lature. ;

A bitter fight is expected. to
develop over Socred plans,

known to be under discussion, | °
to meet employer demands for) .
‘further restrictive,

anti-labor
measures including removal of
legal provisions for checkoff of
union. dues.

The key to what develops in

| the next eight weeks will lie).

in. the extent to which labor
and progressives unite their

tanks to press for changes in

government policies.

In a “Be kind to Krupp”
move the Western powers

ALFRED. KRUPP

. . again shown kindness by
western powers.

West Kind To Krupp

| have given another 12 month’
hoist to the 1954 Allied order

| that he

sell his coal and

| steel holdings.

freed’ im
only sie

Krupp, who was
1951 after serving

lyears of a 12-year sentence

| slave
|under the order. to have sold

as a war criminal! for usingt
labor, was supposed

his coal and steel holdings by;

| Jan. 31, 1959. He was gives

one year then. Last year “he
was -- given another’ 12
months. Now he has been
given another year.

The whole procedure hag
become a farce, for none of
the Western powers intend
any longer to implement ge

|break-up order.

An ‘appeal. to- all who are;
concerned about job opportun-
;ities and who have the inter-
ests of Canada at heart, to
work for rejection of the pro-
posed Columbia Treaty with
the U.S., was made by Nigel
Morgan, B.c€. leader of the
Communist Party to an over-
flow audience at the Marxist
Forum, in
Hall, Vancouver; Sunday.

baker and Eisenhower,
not > become = binding .- until
ratification has been voted by
Parliament: and the U.S. Con-
gress) — expected within the
next: few months.
of decision for Canada is near
at hand’, he warned.
Reviewing terms: of propos-
ed ‘Treaty, Morgan made the
folowing points:
1.°-Promised ‘“‘downstream
benefits” will nowhere nearly
compensate Canada for (a) our
expense, in providing storage
control for the U.S.;° or, - (b}
the extremely low-cost power
Canada could have developed
for - itself. under
Naughton Plan.
2..Abandonment of Cana-
dian. chairman of International
Joint Commission’s recommen:
dations will mean sacrifice of
many thousands of Canadian
jobs.
3. Erection of High Avecay
and dedication of Mica Creek
primarily to U.S. storage will
sharply reduce power genera-
tion possibilities on the Cana-
dian side; apart from disloea-
tion of industry and destruc-
tion of one of the finest recre-
ation centres in the province.

4. Permitting U.S. alienation

the Fishermen’s|

The proposed draft Treaty, |
signed this week by. Diefen-|
does |

“The day:

the Mac-|

of Kootenay River waters will

January 27, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

Alternative plan for
Columbia put forward

involve tremendous power
generation losses for Canada,
huge expenditures by . Cana-
dian taxpayers for damming,
and bring us little if any dow re
stream benefits.

5. Actual benefits to B.C.
power consumers will, in aik
probability, prove as illusion.
ary. eventually as promised
savings in natural gas.

And 6. It is an extremely
poor return from the $720 mil-
lion. saving, U.S. negotiators
estimate they are saving from,
the alternative on the U.S. side
recommended by the US.
Army Corp of Engineers.

To those who say “let’s get
the Columbia before the
Peace,” Morgan warned “Thé
Columbia won't. solve any

problem, or mean any saving,
if we surrender its advantages
to. the U.S.”

Morgan called for united
action, while there is still
time, to convince our MLAs
and MPs to reject the pro-
posed Treaty when it comes
before Parliament.

“Instead, we should demand
an immediate start On con-
struction at Mica Creek as a
joint Provincial-Federal pro-
ject, primarily for Canadian
generation, and as first step in
a mighty, all-Canadian East-
West grid; substitution . of
“low” Arrow for “high” Arrow
with generation at Castlegar
and Murphy Creek; announce-
ment of Canada’s intention of
carrying through the Dorr
Diversion; and reopening of
negotiation, with the U.S. for
a more equitable downstream
return in power for additional
hydro, flood benefits, and the
estimated saving of $720 mil-
lion on the U.S. side to achieve
the same results,” He said. *